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Amnesty of more than 1200 inmates convicted of minor crimes has been announced in Georgia on the occasion of the fourth anniversary of the "Revolution of Roses".

The "Imedi" TV and Radio Company has hopes for restart of broadcasting before the forthcoming presidential election in Georgia.

Georgia continues capturing peaceful residents of South Ossetia by planting drugs and weapons on them. This was the comment of Tarzan Kokoity, Chairman of the Parliament of the RSO, on detention by Georgian special agencies of Ossetian Dzhambolat Kokaev, accused by the Georgian party of keeping drugs.

Representatives of the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) assert that liquidation works of the oil spillage consequences in the Kerch Strait are inefficient.

It is quite probable that the authorities of Georgia used a special acoustic system for dispersing the opposition meeting on November 7; the operation of the system causes sharp pain in ears and a feeling of inexplicable and uncontrollable fear and panic in humans.

In Gyzylkhesar prison of the Iranian city of Karadzh, Medzhid Khudai Gamidoglu, an activist of the Movement for the Rights of South Azerbaijan Azerbaijanis and a member of the Party for Independence of South Azerbaijan, was lost.

Liudmila Sarkisyan, Chairperson of the "Gnchak" Social-Democratic Party of Armenia, has condemned the beating of Narek Galstyan, leader of the youth organization "Sarkis Tkhruni" of the "Gnchak" Party.

The government of Georgia does not allow the "Imedi" Radio Station to resume broadcasting.

The Moscow City Court has rejected the complaints lodged by advocates of the brothers Tamerlan and Ibragim Makhmudovs and Magomed Demelkhanov who asked to release the three convicts in the murder case of Anna Politkovskaya.

Terrorists have received over one and a half million US dollars for destabilization of the situation in Northern Caucasus before the forthcoming parliamentary elections, and the law enforcement bodies failed to block the channels of funding the militants.

In Krasnodar both defendants in the case of newborn Sonya Kulivets - doctor Vladimir Pelipenko and nurse Elena Senicheva - have been sentenced to one year of imprisonment in a colony-settlement.

In Georgia, the Tbilisi City Court has satisfied the petition of the State Office of Public Prosecutor and ruled in absentia another pre-trial arrest for Irakliy Okruashvili, former Minister of Defence.

The opposition of Ingushetia is warning the authorities against any attempts to prevent to hold an all-Republic's protest rally.

UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon has welcomed the cancelling of the state of emergency in Georgia and expressed his hope for a fast and complete restoration of the freedom of all the mass media operating in this country.

The investigators have announced the main reasons of the numerous ship-wrecks on November 11 in the Kerch Strait.

Zeitun Gaev, 29, a resident of Gerpegezh village, who was detained on November 15, died in Kabardino-Balkaria.

On November 15, the European Court for Human Rights (ECfHR) satisfied three complaints lodged by Chechen residents and found Russia guilty of violent disappearances, extrajudicial executions and illegal capture and destruction of private property in Chechnya.

The Internet resource "Ingushetia.ru", where access had been stopped by the order of the authorities of Ingushetia, has made a statement calling on the Ingush Internet users to refuse from the services of the Internet providers - the Telecom Limited Liability Company and the ITT Closed Joint-Stock Company.

The Ukrainian scientists had tried to warn the authorities about the catastrophe that was approaching in the Kerch Strait; however, nobody listened to them.

According to the ruling of the Binagadinskiy District Court of Azerbaijan, the whole circulation of the book "Public TV in the Press Mirror" will be confiscated and destroyed.